Scott Loarie

We've seen hundreds of discoveries like this.

So this is Abigail Depozo.

She's a student in Ecuador, and she was actually on a class field trip, and she noticed this butterfly, posted a picture of it.

It's a completely new species of butterfly.

Just this February, Deb Manley was in Big Bend National Park in Texas, and she was on a hike, and she saw this little flower that she didn't recognize.

So she took a photo of it.

And again, it's a completely new species of plant, and that's inside of a national park inside of the United States.

And even in super well-studied groups like BIRDS, so this is Tom Veras, and he's a filmmaker.

So he was in Papua New Guinea on a scouting trip.

He saw this hawk up in the tree, so he takes a photograph of it, and it hasn't been seen for 55 years.

But this is my favorite story.

This is Juan Daru.

He's a Colombian architect.

and he was in this really remote cabin in the Andes.

And all of a sudden, this weasel jumps into the cabin.

It's running around inside the bathroom, knocking things over.

So he grabs his camera, and he takes these pictures of the elusive Colombian weasel.

So it starts out, this is an animal that the day before was only known from skins inside of museums.

And then this discovery gins up a bunch of attention on the media, science colliding with the natural world, you know?

the modern world.